Send Messages
Learn to use Slack API calls to send messages.
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Overview
We can use the Slack application to automate a daily message to a channel or send a joke to a colleague. We use Slack’s Chat API for this.
Let’s look at the following endpoints in this lesson:
chat.meMessage
: This endpoint sends an italicized action text message to a channel.chat.postMessage
: This endpoint sends a message to a channel.chat.scheduleMessage
: This endpoint schedules a message to be sent to a channel in the future.
Send a “me” message
We’ll start with the most straightforward endpoint first—the https://slack.com/api/chat.meMessage
endpoint. This endpoint allows us to send an italicized
Some important query parameters for the chat.meMessage
endpoint are the following:
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